Gotta admit, that was a pretty cool stunt by Volvo.

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Yeah, who knew volvo could split their legs like that.

Pretty incredible that Van Damme was able to do this, let alone at age 53.

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A friend of mine is a photographer and he says this is THE SONG to add to a slideshow if you want people to start crying. He used it as the finale for his annual slideshow he made for his daughter's End of Year celebration at her school and said the entire hall would be weeping by the end of the track, every year.

Gosh I remember this advert. Was pretty fun.

If you’ve never listened to the whole album, I seriously recommend it. It’s called “A Day Without Rain” and is one of those 10/10 albums where every song is good.

Middle school art class wouldn’t have been the same without Enya playing on repeat in the background. It never got old.

The only time I remember this song having a comeback was after 9/11. Dang, that song was everywhere after that happened. I still can’t listen to it because of this.

Bohemian Rhapsody charted in three different decades.

• 70s Original release
• 90s Thanks to its use in the Wayne's World movie
• 10s Due to the Queen biopic of the same name

Wow I just remembered how a TA at my kids old school did this and it was diabolical. It was one song in a bigger year end show. All the 5th graders sat at the edge of the stage. They sang Green Day’s Time of Your Life.

Halfway through the song the kids revealed their kindergarten portraits!

The kids, 5th graders, holding their kinder portraits looking dead ass in their parents faces while they sang “I hope you had the tiiime of your liiiife”

I was so grateful my kid was only in 2nd grade at the time cause those 5th grade parents were sobbing

Same happened with "Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen, a song from 1963. It reentered the UK single charts in 2009/2010 (peak position: 3) because it was prominently featured in a Family Guy episode.

Funny enough, that song is actually called Good Riddance. :)

Also thanks to the fact that Enya fucking rocks.

I honestly wonder why you would want your audience to cry.

Emotional impact is the goal of many artists

I used to use that song to tune my custom car audio builds. I had a friend who claimed there was no reason to build a big sound system in a car, because you can never recreate the quality of a home audio system. He wasn't wrong, but I got close! Made the man cry the first time he sat in my ride.

Ok... thats fucking bonkers. The sheer amount of ways that can go wrong. The insane strength and stability of a 53 year old to do that effortlessly. The precision of the drivers. The crazy sob that came up with this.

Humanities wild sometimes.

What a record! Hard to believe this was the Only Time

Its a good fuckin song.

Mayhaps the commercial benefited from the music, not the other way around?

Obligatory Chuck Norris version https://youtu.be/8kZuTdVeZsg

Oh wow I didn’t realize. I wish I still had an old program to see that printed on it!

Probably both.

And not the only one.

The reason why I looked this up on Wikipedia is because I was notified by recovermy.video that this video (which was among my liked videos) was listed as private suddenly. No idea why since the stunt was quite some time ago already.

Damn. I just assumed it was fake. I know there's harnesses and stuff but I figured they composited him in.

And thanks to family guy I absolutely DESPISE the song now. I'll actively go out of my way to never hear it again

it also helped that it was in quite a few movies and shows too.
https://www.what-song.com/Artist/829/Enya

It's often used in contexts like this. It works well if you don't listen to the lyrics too carefully

Back in my day... (old man rant inbound)

That song was "Silent Lucidity", and then later it was RHCP's "Under the Bridge". My Senior Class voted for "Under the Bridge" as our class song, and it was like... y'all clearly don't know what this song is about but OK.

This was also the anthem remixed over people epic failing, prior to that resulting in copyright strikes ruining the internet forever

It was a time of turmoil. A time of conflict, until a man's sacrifice changed how we see trucks forever.

She's been in my top 10 since the early 90s.

this also happened with "running up that hill" by Kate bush. originally charted in the 80's, made a quick reappearance in 2012 at the olympics, and then again this year when it was on Stranger Things. it charted higher this year than it did when it first came out

Completely agree. Fantastic album. The entire thing.

Thanks for bringing this up!

This is one of the albums my dad would always play when we deep cleaned the house when I was growing up. I have such deep sense memories of Christmassy-scented candles, sitting on the couch kinda sweaty from furiously mopping, and Enya.

The UK charts had this at #3 in 1985 (original release), then #6 in 2012 (remix version), then #51 in 2014, followed by the 2022 re-release, which hit #1. In the US, the 1985 release hit #30, and the re-release in 2022 hit #3. The re-release made Top Ten in more than 30 countries worldwide.

I am sorry.

If you listen to the lyrics, it's about savoring the time and the memories. Even when it was hard, it was worth it and you should cherish those times. Well, that's my take. The songwriter said it was about enjoying the times he had with an ex-girlfriend who moved away, and angry that life caused them to separate.

>"It's about trying to be cool, accepting that, in life, people go in different directions," Armstrong told Rolling Stone. "People come into your life and it's wonderful, but they seem to go out of your life as quickly as they came in."

No offense if you were, but were you just basing your statement on the title of the song?

If you watch the making of, JCVD was attached to a harness just in case. Still insane they pulled it off safely.

Same thing with me, Wayne’s World and Queen. Totally destroyed, and I used to like Queen.

Licensing your old music for just the right use can completely reinvigorate your career years or even decades later.

Just ask Kate Bush.

Enya never leaves the house and rarely approaches the windows. Even has a panic room. Stalkers. Lives in a castle next door to Bono in Killiney in Dublin who hid Salman Rushdie in a granny flat in his back garden during the Fatwa. Enya makes stupid amounts of money because she produces all her own music in her home studio and negotiated a record deal that gives her complete creative control. Fair balls to Enya. I also went on a date with a girl who said she sells her fake designer handbags which is hilarious if true.

Not sure why Volvo's truck division feels that they need to market so hard but I'm 100% okay with it. They have slicker marketing for their semi trucks (lorries for you Brits) than many car manufacturers.

In school we watched a documentary on Rushdie living in secret seclusion, this was long before the whole Bono's Gazebo thing came to light. One eagle eyed lad in the class blurted out "PAUSE! I know where he is!" Sure enough he had a Dublin 01 Golden Pages phone book on his coffee table. Obviously didn't identify his exact location but we found it very amusing that he was somewhere in Dublin.

What was the harness's other end attached to?

Probs the trucks

I unironically love Enya.

>it charted higher this year than it did when it first came out

If I'm not mistaken, this is what happened with "All I Want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey as well. It came out in the 90s, but didn't actually hit number one until a couple years ago.

Knew I'd forgotten something!

Volvo has had amazing choice of music for their advertisements as they long as I can remember.

For some reason I associate this song with 9/11. I wasn't even 3 when it happened, but in the following months I remember seeing my mom sobbing while watching a recap of the footage set to this song. Weird little core memory.

Jackie Chan

I can almost see his volvo

You're not alone, someone else mentioned the same in the comments.

Dude it would be weird if I was licking their face and there weren't even any tears there for me to consume.

Enya has made some pretty emotional music, both as a solo artist and when she was a member of the band Clannad, to which she was backing vocals and keyboardist - first band to get into the UK Top 40 with a song in Gaelic. In fact, the other members of the band were her siblings and uncles.

You're not wrong. Per the Wikipedia article for A Day Without Rain, the album the song was lead single for;

> Following the 11 September 2001 attacks, sales of the album and its lead single, "Only Time", skyrocketed after it was used by several radio and television networks in their coverage and aftermath of the attacks.

And that was just from the article header. It's got an entire section about the 9/11 bump;

> Following the 11 September 2001 attacks, "Only Time" was used in radio and television coverage of the disaster, which led to increased sales and radio airplay of the single and A Day Without Rain, to the point of both records surpassing their initial peak on the US charts. CNN and ABC News, among other networks, played the song with "Fallen Embers" as backdrops of footage of the victims. Its position on the Billboard 200 climbed from No. 20 prior to the attacks to its all-time peak of No. 2, driven by the increased audience exposure of "Only Time". In the same month, "Only Time" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart after it already spent 33 weeks on the chart, breaking a seven-year-old record for the longest climb to the top position in the chart's history. In November 2001, the single climbed to its peak of No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it Enya's highest-charting single in the US. From October 2001 to January 2002, over 3 million RIAA-certified units of A Day Without Rain were sold in the US alone, which included a peak of one million copies sold in 19 days.

> "Only Time" gained further exposure following its use as a sound bed for promos of the comedy series Friends on the first five episodes of the eighth season. Following the media response and increased sales of Enya's records, "Only Time" was reissued as a maxi-CD on 20 November 2001 containing the S.A.F remix and original version, with earnings from its sales donated to the Uniform Firefighters Association's Widows' and Children's Fund in aid of families of fire fighters involved in the attack rescue operations.

Sounds like a WP humanity unleashes our marketing abilities into the universe ar large and no one is ready for the it...

TIL Enya was the name of one person and not a whole band....

Gat damn! I didn't realize they did that driving trailers in reverse! That stability in reverse really is more impressive than the splits (mainly because I watched like every Van Damme movie and saw it a bunch).

Her full name is Enya Patricia Brennan. Also, she lives in a castle in Ireland with her cats.

Not a joke, by the way.

That song will always take me back to the hoopla surrounding the end of Friends. During the Friends final season, an ad featuring “Only Time” was played incessantly as we counted down to THE END. Cheers to Enya & JCVD.

I was taking a LOT of acid when she released Return to Innocence and that video fucked me up for a solid week. Every time it came on, it was like the world stopped for a few minutes.

That... wasn't Enya. It was Enigma.

To be fair, I've seen some compilation albums which have both their songs included due to being mellow and focused on tranquility and meditation.

Haaaa! You're right, and my memory has been false for decades. Wow...

I mean, I've heard some of Enya's music throughout the years but never knew the artist, then really dived into it when I learned her name from the Lord Of The Rings song she sung, "May It Be". And Enigma? I only heard of that band through Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Araki has a killer taste in music). So, no shame.

Edit: Look up Sadeness/The Principles of Lust.

>Sadeness

That song was super popular and hard to avoid back in the day. It still "slaps" (as the young people say)

You can hear it during the massage scene in Charlie's Angels, when Alex renders Tim Curry unconscious.

Question how did people rebuy the single back then when you had to purchase a CD surely the singles wouldn't have still been in the shop?

> Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play, and online streaming in the United States.

You don't necessarily have to physically buy the single.

I was going to say the same. I can’t listen either.

The Rust video of the dude betraying the kids with the AK

LOL, I didn't know this video before, epic

Actually yeah. Enya on repeat never got boring or annoying. I remember it from school too lol.

I don't know much Enya, but I do know she features on Sinead O'Connor's Never Get Old which is an absolutely fantastic song.

I’m sorry, I didn’t understand your post. It destroyed you that a new generation discovered Queen?

I used to enjoy listening to Queen. After Waynes World, the local radio stations played a queen song every 3rd of 4th. After hearing Bohemian Rhapsody, Under Pressure or any other Queen song for the 5th time that hour and for months on end, I got kinda burnt on hearing it. Its been what, 30 years? and I still turn the radio off every time I hear Queen come on.

I was one of those kids listening to BR on the radio after Wayne’s World.

Do you wanna know something? I (and basically all of my friends) had NEVER heard Bohemian Rhapsody before. We thought it was hysterical that Wayne, Garth and their friends were lip syncing this weird opera and we loved it. I assume the same thing happened to kids watching the Queen movie. Maybe they recognized a few songs, but my guess is that throughout the movie, they probably thought “oh Queen made this song too???”

So basically you have 2 choices. Either you don’t have the WW or 2019 movie - a world where /u/Voiceoflunacy never has to be annoyed by Queen on any station other than classic rock, but no one under 60 has heard of them other than some weird 70s band… or /u/VoiceOfLunacy lives in the world we are now, where every generation rediscovers how timeless and awesome Queen’s music can be.

Didn’t destroy anything, and I don’t force choices on people, except for the ones trying to listen to my radio when I turn off Queen.

You… specifically said you used to enjoy Queen and now, specifically because of the resurgence in popularity and airplay, you stated you now turn the radio off when you hear their songs (these are the words you chose).

So, um… it seems it did destroy your appreciation for Queen. Instead of that, you replied that “I don’t force my opinions on anyone.”

I specifically said because it was overplayed, I don’t enjoy it anymore. I said nothing about others listening or being able to enjoy, just that I don’t.